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Instructions for VPN configuration for UNIMI Physics Department students:
The Computing Service has made available a VPN service based on the software OpenVPN (https://openvpn.net/community/) dedicated to students in the UNIMI Department of Physics.
ACCESS:
In order to log in, the student must
- have got an account on the “Lab Calcolo“
- If she/he hasn’t got one, she/he can create it by registering at
https://studenti.fisica.unimi.it/registrazione/
- and must submit the request for permission to use the VPN for her/his thesis or lab to her/his reference teacher; the teacher requests the dedicated access group enablement to the Computing Center; the student waits for the actual permission to use our VPN.
Instructions for installing an OpenVPN client
for Linux:
Most distributions natively provide the software. For Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions the command-line package is called openvpn while for graphical management the packages network-manager-openvpn and network-manager-openvpn-gnome can be installed. For RHEL/Fedora type distributions the corresponding packages are openvpn, NetworkManager-openvpn, NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome.
Use the appropriate configuration file given at the bottom of the page.
for Mac OS X:
Install the Tunnelblick software https://tunnelblick.net/downloads.html
Create a directory with the name “Tunnelblick VPN Configuration.tblk”.
Create a vpn-students.conf file and copy in it the appropriate configuration records (select all, copy and paste) from our “vpn-students.conf” file: you find at the bottom of the page.
Double-click on the directory, using Finder, to install the configuration.
for Windows 10:
Download the vpn-students.ovpn configuration file below (do not change the extension).
Download the OpenVPN package from https://openvpn.net/client-connect-vpn-for-windows/ and install it.
Create an “Openvpn Administrators” group and add to it the user of the PC that will use the VPN: follow the separate instructions for Windows 10 PRO / ENT and for Windows 10 HOME given on the page dedicated to the VPN for UNIMI and INFN Staff (but using the configuration file dedicated to the STUDENTS VPN and downloadable from this page).
Start OpenVPN GUI and use Connect (icon at the bottom right of the taskbar): right-click on the vpn-students.ovpn icon, Connect.
- configuration file for Linux and Mac OS X: vpn-students.conf
- configuration file for Windows: vpn-students.ovpn
NOTE: For security reasons, network traffic in VPN tunnel is restricted to internal networks and ports 22, 80, 443, 3389, 5900 only.